Problems No. 1-20 Lookstamable 1. Stations A and B are 120 miles apart on a single-track railroad. At the same time that a train leaves A for B at 25 mph, a train leaves B for A at 15 mph. Just as the first train leaves A, a South American bottly fies from the front of the engine straight toward the other train at 100 mph. On ‘meeting the second train it immediately turns back and flies straight for the first train. It continues to fly back and forth with undiminished speed until itis crushed in the eventual collision. How far had the fly flown? * (1 Point) #3 Chapter 1 © 400 miles © 290 mies © 200 ites © 250 mites 2. What is the least number of links that must be disengaged from a 23-link chain so that any ‘umber of links from 1 to 23 can be obtained by taking one or more of the piece * (1 Point) ] v0. the tan the 11h © the. the athand the 1th and the 23d, © Four the Ath and the 11th and the 23 © One. The 4th. 3. The numbers are divided into three groups as follows: 0, 3, 6, 8,9, .. in the first group, 1, 4, 7, 11, 14, .. in the second group and 2, 5, 10, 12, 13, .. in the third, In which groups would 15, 16, and 17 be placed? * (1 Point) @ 15 ond 16 ould bein the third group and 17 in second © 1S.nd 16 would be in the second! group and 17 in fst 15.and 16 would be nthe second group and 17 in third 115 and 16 would be in the thi group and 17 init.4,1n a fast Major League baseball game’ pitcher Hi N. Outside managed to get by with the minimum number of pitches possible. He played the entire game, which was not called prior to completion. How many pitches did he make? * (1 Point) Os er Ox a 5.Six grocers in a town each sell a different brand of tea in four ounce packets at 25 cents per packet. One of the grocers gives short weight, each packet of his brand weighing only 3 3/4 ‘ounces. If| can use a balance for only one weighing, what is the minimum amount | must spend, to be sure of finding the grocer who gives short weight?" * (1 Point) chan O 3.1dollars © 27 dotars © 34 doliors O 40dotas 6.Five suspects were rounded up in connection with the famous “Cock Robin Murder.” Their statements were as follows: A: “C and D are lying,” 8: "A and € are lying" C:“B and D are lying. D: *C and € are lying. E: “A and B are lying.’ Who is lying? * (1 Point) chao , O Dislying 7.Mary Ann Moore's father has a yacht and so has each of his four friends: Colonel Downing, Mr. Hall, Sir Barnacle Hood, and Dr. Parker. Each of the five also has one daughter and each has named its yacht after a daughter of one of the others. Sir Barnacle's yacht is the Gabrielle, Mr. Moore owns the Lorna; Mr. Hall the Rosalind. The Melissa, owned by Colonel Downing, is named after Sir Barnacle's daughter. Gabrielle's father owns the yacht which is named after Dr. Parker's daughter. Who is Lorna's father? * Ch 2No.01O Me Hal @ Cone! Downing O de Parker O Sir Barnacle Hood 8.A lighthouse shows successive one-second flashes of red, white, green, green, white, red. A second lighthouse does the same only with two-second flashes, The six-second sequence of the first lighthouse is repeated steadily, as is the twelve-second sequence of the other lighthouse. ‘What fraction of the time do the two lights show the same color if the given sequences start at the same time? * (1 Point) cht No.48 ee” Ow ow Ow ‘9, With some sharp reasoning, you ought to be able to determine the last member of the sequence for which the first 20 members are: 11, 31, 71, 91, 32, 92, 13, 73, 14, 34, 74, 35, 95, 16, 76,17, 37, 97, 38, 98, - (1 Point) cht Noo or er On Os 10.Four boys, Alan, Brian, Charles and Donald, and four girls, Eve, Fay, Gwen and Helen are each in love with one of the others, and, sad to say, in no case is their love requited. Alan loves the who loves the man who loves Eve. Fay is loved by the man who is loved by the git! loved by Brian. Charles loves the girl who loves Donald. If Brian is not loved by Gwen, and the boy who is loved by Helen does not love Gwen, who loves Alan? * (1 Point)Gwenloves Alan Eve loves Alan Fayloves Alan Helen loves Alan Chrysler loves Alan 1 | Smith and Jones, both 50% marksmen, decide to fight a duel in which they exchange alternate shots until one is hit. What are the odds in favor of the man who shoots first? * (1 Point) Ow Ow aoe Ow 12,0n a certain day, our parking lot contains 999 cars, no two of which have the same 3 digit license number. After 5:00 p.m. what is the probability that the license numbers of the first 4 cars to leave the parking lot are in increasing order of magnitude? * (1 Point) © one chance in 720 O one chance in 999 @ ore chance in 2 O one chance in 36 13. Three marksmen simultaneously shoot at and hit a rapidly spinning spherical target. What is the probability that the three points of impact are on the same hemisphere? * (1 Point) ch 3 No.6 (Nov 2016) On Ow On e14.4 hospital nursery contains only two baby boys; the girls have not yet been counted, At 2:00 p.m, ‘anew baby is added to the nursery. A baby is then selected at random to be the first to have its footprint taken, It turns out to be a boy. What is the probability that the last addition to the nursery was a gitl * (1 Point) ans 35 us wo 15. Assume that a single depth charge has a probability of 1/2 of sinking a submarine, 1/4 of damage and 1/4 of missing. Assume also that two damaging explosions sink the sub. What is the probability that 4 depth charges will sink the sub? * (1 Point) @ 22% O r2sps6 O nvs0 O sps6 16.1f 2 marbles are removed at random from a bag containing black and white marbles, the chance that they are both white is 1/3. If 3 are removed at random, the chance that they all are white is, 1/6. How many marbles are there of each color? * (1 Point) @ © white and black marbles O S white and 4 black marbles © 4 white and 5 black marbles © 4uhite and 6 black marbles17. coin is so unbalanced that you are likely to get two heads in two successive throws as you are to get talls in one, What is the probability of getting heads in a single thraw? * (1 Point) © 0881 O ons O ose © 0673 18. Three dart players threw simultaneously at a tic-tac-toe board, each hitting a different square. What is the probability that the three hits constituted a win at tic-tac-toe? * vai wi apr sri 19. All the members of a fraternity play basketball while all but one play ice hockey; yet the number of possible basketball teams (5 members) is the same as the number of possible ice hockey teams (6 members). Assuming there are enough members to form either type of team, how many are in the fraternity? * (1 Point) © the fraternity had 15 members and could fel 2002 teams of either O the fraternity had 14 members and could field 2,002 teams of either © the fraternity had 14 members and could fed 3.003 teams of either © ve faery had 15 members and could eld 3.008 teams of ether 20.A game of super-dominoes is played with pieces divided into three cells instead of the usual two, containing all combinations from triple blank to triple six, with no duplications. For example the set does not include both 12 3 and 3 2 Isince these are merely reversals of each other. (But, it does contain 1 3 2) How many pieces are there in a set? * (1 Point) O22 Ow lor Ow